Names for the Sea by Sarah Moss

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Who wouldn’t have loved to have been in the room when Sarah Moss proposed that
her family — husband, two small children — move to Iceland. All of us, once
housebound by middle age and small children, have that fantasy of escape.
But it’s not really escape, it’s a relocation to France or Italy, which are
just places where you meet other suburban British people lip-smacking at the
same wine and olive oil as they did before, just in a different postcode.

But Iceland? Moss has confessed that she didn’t exactly consult her husband
when she sent off her application to be